It is stipulated that all women who are 18 years old and 40 years old must be married, and if there is a single person, the government will send an unmarried soldier to force marriage. The marriage of the soldier must meet three conditions, the first is unmarried, those who have a wife and children at home are not in the marriage list, the second is that the woman is voluntary, if the woman is unwilling, she cannot be forced to marry, and the third is that the old battalion soldiers of the dead battalion are preferred. Finally, if there is a single person, forcibly marrying and marrying is not included in the above requirements.

After this order, the people in Mucheng and the surrounding areas were in chaos, and even the local people in Mucheng were scared enough, especially many women who had lost their husbands, worried that if they were randomly matched with a rude and irascible military man, wouldn't this life be over? So the matchmaker of Mucheng became the busiest people, and three thousand of the 8,000 exile prisoners were women, either lost their husbands or unmarried women who had reached the age of eighteen, and they were even more anxious.

Guan Xiang originally planned to make money for the livelihood of Mucheng people, but he didn't expect to become the busiest matchmaker in the city, he went to the garrison mansion to complain to Zhang Xiaowu and said: "You can't do this kind of work, you can't do this kind of work." ”

Zhang Xiaowu asked rhetorically: "If you don't do a county order, is it difficult for me to have a garrison envoy do it?" ”

Guan Xiang immediately suggested: "You can hand it over to the Wu Army......

Wu Song, who was smiling and working on the side, suddenly shuddered, and said angrily: "Guan Zhongzhi, if you continue to push back like this, are you worthy of the support of adults?" Is it up to the sergeant's expectations? How many unmarried men are waiting to be fed? ”

Zhang Xiaowu laughed out and said, "Mr. Wu has opened a yellow cavity, be careful." ”

Guan Xiang was helpless, suddenly thought of something, patted his thigh and said, "My lord, I have a marriage and need my lord's nod." ”

Zhang Xiaowu asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Guan Xiao said with a complicated face: "Guan Cheng, the captain of the guard battalion, fell in love with a woman from a family, and the woman's family also agreed, and now as long as you nod." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "I'm not Guancheng's grandfather, it's his business which woman he is willing to marry, how can I stop it." ”

Guan Xiao said: "That woman is...... The crown princess of the deposed prince...... Abolish the crown princess and concubine Zou. ”

Zhang Xiaowu's heart was about to jump out, and Wu Song couldn't help but stretch out, and the two of them said in unison: "The crown princess?!" "This Guan Cheng is too fat, even the Zou family dares to marry, her identity and background are enough to bring death to Guan Cheng.

Zhang Xiaowu flatly refused: "Guan Cheng can marry any unmarried woman in Mucheng, but not the Zou family." This rammer, I thought he was just lewd, but I didn't expect this guy to belong to Teddy, dare to be a day. ”

Wu Song also smiled bitterly: "Although the crown prince's concubine Zou was demoted to a commoner, and the children of the abolished prince were also driven out of the royal family, they have a special status, and it is not appropriate for my Mucheng soldiers to mess with the family of the abolished prince." Zhongzhi, you don't persuade him, you know that doing so can kill him. ”

Guan Xiao was angry: "I have also persuaded them, but this Guan Cheng is dead-hearted, and he must marry them." He also told me that he would marry him unless he could die. ”

Zhang Xiaowu exclaimed: "Return them? Not one? ”

Guan Xiao said: "Not only is there just one prince concubine, but also two Fengyi, and the three women of the family want to marry Guan Cheng together." So that kid is now obsessed, and I can't persuade him. But he was afraid of you, and he didn't dare to tell you directly, so he had to make me turn around and report to the adults. ”

Wu Song smiled: "It shows that although his brain is hot, he also knows life and death." ”

"Did the three women do it voluntarily?"

"But it's voluntary, I also asked, they heard that Guan Cheng is a school captain, and they are even more willing."

Zhang Xiaowu shook his head and smiled bitterly, saying in his heart that this bastard thing can really cause chaos for himself, so he said: "Zhongzhi, you call Guancheng to me, damn it, he won't be beaten for three days, and he will go to heaven." ”

After Guan Cheng was scolded by Zhang Xiaowu, he was depressed, but he had to listen to Zhang Xiaowu's words, and the marriage was temporarily collapsed.

Soon after, it was suddenly rumored that the three women of the abolished prince's family had hanged themselves, and the county ordered Guan Xiang to hastily close the case and report it to the imperial court. The two sons and four daughters of the abolished prince's family were left unattended, and for the sake of the royal family's face, the county ordered Guan Xiang to be adopted by the school captain Guan Cheng.

Guan Cheng was grateful, it turned out that Zhang Xiaowu asked Hu Sanwan to help perform a big drama of stealing beams and changing pillars, and after Zou and the other two Fengyi faked their deaths, they were secretly taken to Guan Cheng's newly bought house in the city, and they also adopted the children of the abolished prince by the way.

Guan Cheng didn't know that these children were not Xuanyuan Zixun's species, and he thought that he had become the second brother of the prince, and he felt how beautiful he was. Guan Cheng renamed the two sons of the abolished prince Guan Ming and Guan Liang, and was taken by him to practice martial arts since he was a child, treating them as his own, but he did not live up to the hard work of the three women.

Afterwards, Guan Cheng knelt down to thank Zhang Xiaowu and said that he had taken off my head now, and I didn't say a word.

Zhang Xiaowu smiled and said that although you are impulsive, you also attach importance to love and righteousness, and you don't care whether the Zou family is taking advantage of you.

Guan Cheng said that he was being used, and he was willing, and if he was betrayed by them one day in the future, he would not resent them.

"This matter is over, I need to mention it again, Zou and the other two women, you must not contact their mother's family, otherwise you will not be able to escape from the murder." Zhang Xiaowu advised, "And your children, keep your mouth shut, outsiders know that their aunt is alive, and you all have to die." ”

"Humble understood."

In order to help Guancheng cover up, Zhang Xiaowu let people let out the wind, saying that after the abolished princess and her children saw the tombstone of the abolished prince, the rabbit died and the fox was saddened and buried by hanging, which achieved their reputation of chastity and filial piety, and also blocked a lot of trouble for Guancheng.

After dealing with the matter of Guancheng, Zu Gongmao came to report, saying that the four tunnels connecting the city and the outside of the city were finally opened, and these four tunnels were all eight feet high and four feet wide, and they were one zhang deep underground, ranging in length from five to ten miles, and the farthest of them was the tunnel connected to the epidemic village.

Zhang Xiaowu was overjoyed, and immediately inspected the situation of the tunnel with Xiao Kai, Hu Li, Hu Sanwan and others, but they found that there was a problem in the tunnel, the ventilation system was insufficient, and if the soldiers were hidden, it would be easy to suffocate if there were too many soldiers.

"We are only a few dozen of us who are already difficult to breathe, and if we hide in a thousand people, we are afraid that we will suffocate to death." After the inspection, Zhang Xiaowu said, "Ventilation openings need to be built every few dozen zhang, and hollow bamboo can be used for construction." ”

Zu Gongmao said: "Let's do it." ”

The completion of the tunnel means that the wooden city is no longer a lonely city and difficult to defend, and they can finally advance and retreat freely.

Everyone was overjoyed, Zhang Xiaowu ordered the slaughter of cattle and sheep, and drank and had fun in the garrison palace. The land in Saibei is barren and thin, not suitable for farming, so the cattle are herd, not Central Plains cattle. Therefore, the regulations of the Central Plains that beef is not allowed to be eaten in Saibei is a piece of waste paper, of course, this beef is not said to be eaten, after all, this beef is too expensive, even the garrison envoy rarely eats beef.

Zhang Xiaowu looked at the cut beef, and suddenly had an idea, and thought of the food of the Yan people again, and shouted: "Yes, we will eat hot pot today." ”